You will need the American Community Survey of New York (acs_ny.csv) data set in this assignment. You
You will need the American Community Survey of New York (acs_ny.csv) data set in this assignment. You can download the data set below
Source Data: American Community Survey of New York (acs_ny.csv)
The American Community Survey of New York data describe a family's economic, housing, and demographic information such as yearly incomes, family type (married, female head, male head, etc), number of people, number of children, if the family is living on FoodStamp, number of people who are currently employed, etc. Use this data set to answer the following questions:
Questions:
1. Choose an appropriate model to determine if there is family income (i.e.,
FamilyIncome
in the data set) difference among different types of families (i.e.,
FamilyType
in the data set) in the state of New York?
2. Choose an appropriate model to determine if there is family income (
FamilyIncome
) difference between families with kids and families without kids? (Note: There is currently no column holding data about whether a family has kids. You may want to use the
with()
function in R to create a new column to hold the binary answers.)
3. Choose an appropriate model, and use
FamilyIncome
,
NumChildren
,
NumPeople
,
NumWorkers
to predict the likelihood that a family is living on
FoodStamp
.
Deliverable: Word Document
